All these types of camps existed in the occupied territory of the USSR. In most cases collection points and transit camps were little more than an enclosed area in the open. It was not uncommon for the permanent camps to be organized in the same manner. The nourishment was practically absent.

Executed Soviet prisoners of war. Novgorod region. 1942

As a result most of the prisoners of war (about 2 million) died from cold, hunger, diseases, and executions before February 1942.

From the memoirs of Mikhail Mikhalkov, a former prisoner of war

«After I got out of the Kiev encirclement my life became complicated, I got into horrible scrapes… I went through four camps, the last of which was Alexandria in Kirovograd region where I had been once before but had escaped. It was there that I realized I must take revenge on the Nazis.»